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The Justice Department has issued a series of subpoenas to officials in three states, nodding to an expansion of its inquiry into the false elector scheme pursued by the 2020 Trump campaign.
A trio of subpoenas, first reported by The on Tuesday, were sent in late November to county officials in Michigan, Arizona, and Wisconsin.
The subpoenas were among the first signed by newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith and a signal the Justice Department is pushing ahead in two probes centered on former President Trump: the Jan. 6 investigation and the case tied to the mishandling of White House records at Mar-a-Lago.
The subpoenas ask the county clerks — those for Dane County, Wisc., Maricopa County, Ariz., and Wayne County, Mich. — to detail any communications with “Donald J. Trump, or any employee or agent of, or attorney for, the Trump Campaign.”
The documents then lists 19 key allies of the campaign, a group that includes Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien and attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and John Eastman, as well as official campaign attorneys and advisers such as Boris Epshteyn.
